Comments on: Consumer Reports on the Xbox 360

By: Confused

Confused — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:50:34 +0000

Everything that has been posted is true.360 only last about one year mine broke one week after waranty was up.I was confused that company as big as this would treat people so wrong.games are 65 bucks. i year of buying games and 2 13 month online card and to have brake on the 13th seems like it was planed

By: Ziggy

Ziggy — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:27:12 +0000

After having an xbox 360 for almost 90days, the consule has been mistreating the disc’s by placing Arc scratch’s, which seems there is poor durability in the disc slot.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 11:05:41 +0000

The elite is still liable to the same faith as the original 360, i have my elite 11 months and its now broke, 1 red light and very bad colour issues, why are microsoft getting away with this?

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 19:53:47 +0000

I also purchased 2 XBox 360s. They both ended up with Red Rings of Death, just a month or 2 after the warranty. This console is a piece of crap in just over a year’s time. The sad part is, I only played them once or twice a week. They have dropped the price to $199, they need to be $99. I also purchased PS3 too. I just read that they are having problems with the Blu Ray not reading discs. I can confirmed that. If you want a system that works without problems, buy a wii.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 13:53:15 +0000

Typical Microsoft to make something that doesnt work right. I have been playing video games since I was a kid, and this is the first problem I have had with a console (I actually have two Xbox 360’s, both with the “ring of death”).

1) Original Nintendo (still freaking works after 25 years)

2) Gamecube (7 years old, works fine)

3) Playstation 2 (still works, about 6 years old).

4) Original X box, still works.

Long story short, I just recieved a Playstation 3 for christmas (because of the blu ray capabilities), and as soon as I get both of the refurbished units back, I am trading all my 360 stuff in for PS3 games and equipment. F microsoft, I also bought a mac.

By: Mom

Mom — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 02:47:25 +0000

I spent 40 minutes with XBox support trying to get some satisfaction from their poor hardware. My son’s first purchase only worked for a few weeks, we returned it to the store for an exchange. The second system had the “red ring”. XBox sent a new one which did not work just after the warranty ran out. The guys at the store believe it is a lens out of calibration. Now it will cost $90 plus shipping for XBox to fix it. If you ask me, the manufacturers of XBox are taking advantage of you gamers that love their games. You need to stop buying their products and demand better customer service. They are creating a throw away product so you will purchase new ones. I wish some of the people that work at XBox would start their own business repairing this crap. They could make a lot of money because there are so many systems that need to be fixed! XBox hardware is made for the trash! The government should fine them for filling our dumps with litter. Their games are good (I felt I had to add something positive).

By: anyomous

anyomous — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 04:53:55 +0000

I got a 360 arcade mainly for gears of war 2. They same day the game would not play it keep frezing and saying disc unreadably. I called microsoft and they said that they would send me a new game to replace that one, still waiting on it.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:19:31 +0000

yes i agree. but once you get that “fixed” which is them sending you a new or referbished xbox and give you a 1 year warranty. my “repaired” xbox 360 just broke again 3 weeks after the warranty expired. I think they a cheeply built product that are only built to last 1 year so that you rush out and buy another one to replace it. however the new 360 elite seems to be a longer lasting product with a bigger hard drive. it would definately be a better investment to get the 360 elite than the original core 360.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 18:17:25 +0000

“The Warranty is 3 years long on ALL xbox 360s” that is not true i work at xbox
The Warranty for 3 years is for anyone who has the Ring of Death (Xbox 360: Three red lights flash on the Ring of Light)

but if you are out of Warranty the price has dropped to $90 US.

All other Warrantys remain the same

Article ID : 907534
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/907534

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 01:24:59 +0000

The Warranty is 3 years long on ALL xbox 360s